Toxic smog shrouds New Delhi a day after residents set off a multitude of firecrackers to celebrate the major Hindu festival of Diwali

The number of Zika virus cases has crossed 100 in Rajasthan, a state in northern India where palaces and forts draw large numbers of tourists each year

Iran's state news agency: 3 seamen die of unspecified toxic substance that poisoned 11 crew of cargo ship

Hindu priests have joined conservative protesters to block women of menstruating age from temple, defying a ruling from India's top court to let them enter

India's ruling party and the main opposition are both supporting a protest to keep females of menstruating age from entering one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, in what some political observers say is a bid to shore up votes

An Indian temple and one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage centers has opened its doors to females of menstruating age to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, but hundreds of protesters fought with police to keep women out

A global hunger index has been released showing about 20 percent of Indian children under age 5 suffer from acute under-nutrition in the same week the International Monetary Fund projected India to be the world's fastest-growing economy

The United Nations is celebrating the sanitation gains made in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 at a summit this week in New Delhi, but struggles with open defecation remain in the heart of India's capital

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says 31 people died from drinking tainted alcohol across the country

Iranian media: 11 people die after drinking tainted homemade alcohol in southern port city; 123 hospitalized